March on Electric Children

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March on Electric Children
March on Electric Children cover
Studio album by The Blood Brothers
Released Feb 25, 2002
Recorded Unknown
Genre Post-hardcore
Length 24:38
Label 31G
Producer Matt Bayles
Professional reviews
The Blood Brothers chronology
This Adultery Is Ripe
(2000)		 March on Electric Children
(2002)		 ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn
(2003)

March on Electric Children is the second album by The Blood Brothers, released in February 2002. This album is a self-described short story set to music.[3] Produced by Matt Bayles, the album was recorded in one week [4] on a $3000 budget [5] and has been described by singer Jordan Blilie as "crazier" and "more complex" than the band's previous effort, This Adultery Is Ripe[6].

Contents

[edit] Concept album

The album has been described by numerous critics as a concept album, with its characters portrayed moreso as villains and victims than as heroes. The effort was an attempt by the band to create a storyline with repeating characters that has a bleak outlook on life, emphasizing the consequences of the characters' selfish choices. The album's closing track "American Vultures" is the conclusion to the storyline and wraps up the themes featured in the previous songs. Says singer Jordan Blilie:

“ Basically what we had in mind was that we wanted to focus on what happens when a person lives a life devoid of any real meaning. These are people that lead a very empty superficial existence where motives are completely selfish and empty, and what happens as a result of that choice. ”
 
— Jordan Blilie in an interview with webzine bettawreckonize.com[7]

[edit] Characters

  • Mr. Electric Ocean - "the personification of the media and exploitation and superficiality... the person that influences the protagonist during the entire record"
  • The Skin Army - "a representation of our culture as completely superficial and concerned with the exterior, skin, and what is on the outside"

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by The Blood Brothers.

  1. "Birth Skin/Death Leather" - 1:43
  2. "Meet Me at the Waterfront After the Social" - 2:46
  3. "March on Electric Children!" - 3:03
  4. "New York Slave" - 2:44
  5. "Kiss of the Octopus" - 2:39
  6. "Siamese Gun" - 3:21
  7. "Mr. Electric Ocean" - 2:16
  8. "Junkyard J. vs. the Skin Army Girlz/High Fives, LA Hives" - 2:57
  9. "American Vultures" - 3:27

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Performers

[edit] Production and design

  • Matt Bayles - producer, engineer, mixer
  • The Blood Brothers - co-producer
  • Troy T - assistant engineer
  • Ed B - mastering
  • Dan Dean - layout concept, design, photographs, art
  • Morgan Henderson - layout concept, design, photographs, art
  • Jeffrey Degolier - photographs, art


[edit] Trivia

The title of "Meet Me at the Waterfront After the Social" is a reference to the film Sleepaway Camp (1983), borrowed verbatim from a line spoken by the lead character (Angela).

The song "Kiss of the Octopus" contains a brief sample of the Nine Inch Nails song "The Perfect Drug"[8].